Travel May Be “Fatal to Prejudice,” But . . .
In an earlier post, Destroying America, I speculated that it is the decline in U.S. educational standards that is responsible for our electing “a conman with the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise.”
At left is a slightly different take on the subject, in which Mark Twain discusses the role of international travel in the development of people with “broad and charitable views of the world.”
There are two main problems with applying this principle onto present-day America, however:
• The growing chasm between rich and poor means that fewer people can afford to travel overseas than there were before the onset of “trickle-down economics” 45 years ago, and
• People steeped in bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness have very little interest in changing their character.
Recently, we learned about Trump’s practice of charging businesspeople $5 million for an audience with him. Now, we have the news at left.
At left is a subject of intense debate, i.e., how did the United States come to find itself governed by “a conman with the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise?”
Yes, Trump “blew up” our friendship with our neighbor to the north, but it seems that the Canadians are taking all this philosophically, which is typical of their demeanor.
Here’s something we see commonly on social media. Do you agree sir or madam, completely ignorant of basic biology though you may be, that there are only two genders?
The reader who supplied the meme here doesn’t know that I’m one of very few Americans between the ages of 15 and 90 who’s never spent a dime at Starbucks.
The United States federal government will soon abdicate its role in ensuring that all young Americans are academically prepared to be successful in their lives.
If you run a corporation and you have a penchant for criminal behavior, this is a great time to be alive.
FWIW, I boycott Amazon, etc. 365 days per year, year after year, because I don’t approve of how Bezos behaves on this planet, and in particular how he treats his employees.
The most amazing thing about Trump is his capacity to make (some) people believe that he cares about anything and anyone but himself.
